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Do you consider Brits to be Yanks with a funny accent?

Started by Tank, June 21, 2010, 10:28:15 AM

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Asmodean

#15
June 22, 2010, 07:43:43 AM
Personally, I prefer Australian dialect of English... So I guess I consider every English speaking person a variation of an Aussie with a funny accent.

Scottish is cool too.  :headbang:
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Tank

#16
June 22, 2010, 09:22:10 AM
It's funny but when I was in Chicago if anybody guessed where I came from based just on my accent they said Australia! I had to go a little posh or a little cockney (somebody should have shot Dick Van Dyke). It's only after I sussed the posh element that I started having fun. I was near Chicago for nearly 3 months and got to visiting the local bar of an evening and soon got chatting to the locals on 'ladies night'. I mean what a tradition!  :drool
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Gawen

#17
June 22, 2010, 03:36:36 PM
Quote from: "Tank"But none the less; Have you in the past or do you now consider Brits to be simply Yanks who speak in a funny accent?
No.

That's like asking if Canadian's are yanks as well...eh?

Or Germans are yanks these days that don't speak English.
The essence of the mind is not in what it thinks, but how it thinks. Faith is the surrender of our mind; of reason and our skepticism to put all our trust or faith in someone or something that has no good evidence of itself. That is a sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith is not.
"When you fall, I will be there" - Floor

curiosityandthecat

#18
June 22, 2010, 06:14:17 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans barely consider Brits much at all.  ;)
-Curio

Tank

#19
June 22, 2010, 07:18:59 PM
Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans barely consider Brits much at all.  ;)
No shit Sherlock!

UK is
    The Queen
    Monty Python
    Soccer violence
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

teifuani

#20
June 22, 2010, 07:30:35 PM
Quote from: "Tank"
Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans barely consider Brits much at all.  :P

Asmodean

#21
June 22, 2010, 08:19:27 PM
Quote from: "teifuani"
Quote from: "Tank"
Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans barely consider Brits much at all.  :P
Fish and chips.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

KDbeads

#22
June 22, 2010, 08:45:56 PM
Quote from: "Tank"It's funny but when I was in Chicago if anybody guessed where I came from based just on my accent they said Australia!

Really?
When I lived up that way we had a partner for the company I worked with that came in regularly from London.  He was pegged from London everywhere we took him too.  When the second partner came in from Wales though.... no one could figure him out.  The designers from Amsterdam were confused for Germans more often than not.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

dogsmycopilot

#23
June 22, 2010, 09:05:31 PM
Quote from: "Tank"Have you in the past or do you now consider Brits to be simply Yanks who speak in a funny accent?
No. My British friends would likely be horrified at the thought. The culture and lifestyles are very different in some important ways.

Dretlin

#24
June 22, 2010, 10:01:44 PM
The only characteristic Scottish culture and American culture has in common is a language (from what I have experienced). Even then Scottish slang is so thick I doubt a translator would be a bad idea. (And I have acted as such!)

I can not really speak for Welsh, Irish and English. Even though I have spent time in Northern Ireland.

karadan

#25
June 23, 2010, 08:27:57 AM
Quote from: "Will"I consider Canadians to be Brits with funny accents and Americans to be Australians without a tan and the Irish to be intoxicated.


 roflol
QuoteI find it mistifying that in this age of information, some people still deny the scientific history of our existence.

Thumpalumpacus

#26
June 23, 2010, 06:06:35 PM
Quote from: "Tank"
Quote from: "curiosityandthecat"I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Americans barely consider Brits much at all.  ;)
No shit Sherlock!

UK is
    The Queen
    Monty Python
    Soccer violence

... and a pint at the pub.
Illegitimi non carborundum.

Tank

#27
June 23, 2010, 06:11:21 PM
The UK is?

    The Queen
    Monty Python
    Soccer violence
    Dr Who
    Fish & Chips
    A pint at the pub!
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Gawen

#28
June 23, 2010, 06:33:19 PM
Stiff upper lips
and
Pip pips

*chucklin*
The essence of the mind is not in what it thinks, but how it thinks. Faith is the surrender of our mind; of reason and our skepticism to put all our trust or faith in someone or something that has no good evidence of itself. That is a sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith is not.
"When you fall, I will be there" - Floor

Tank

#29
June 23, 2010, 06:53:09 PM
Strawberries and cream
Crumpets and tea
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.
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